Remarks: Populations of this species are sporadic and disjunct, but can be locally very abundant.

Conservation Considerations: The cliff face habitats in often remote areas effectively remove this rare plant from potential impacts of most land uses. Minerals exploration and development could impact some populations.

Important Literature (*Illustration):

*New Mexico Native Plants Protection Advisory Committee. 1984. A handbook of rare and endemic plants of New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

*Nesom, G.L. and V.D. Roth. 1982. Erigeron scopulinus (Compositae), an endemic from the southwestern United States. Journal of Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 16:39-42.